Comment by agloeregrets | Hacker News Reader

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XD is pretty much a flop in the market. Imagine a world where photoshop or Illustrator showed up late and were actually not very successful against competition. It’s a not-bad product, it’s just behind by one or two steps at things like plugins verses Sketch or Figma. Sure Figma isn’t native but it is very performant regardless and the portability of just piping a browser open anywhere is LOVED by clients.

Sketch is sketch. They invented this market and everything is basic a rip on it. Mac only, but that’s generally UX designers anyways.

It is very notable that XD is used by very few major companies. The industry leading firms overwhelmingly use Sketch or Figma or both.

That is very important in development or plugins. There is just so, much, more.

Macs designers are snowflakes on a world where Apple computers accounts for 10% of world market. Designers working on 90% of the rest of the world also need their tools.

Sketch did not invent anything, similar tools were already available on the 90's.

If industry you mean Web designers using Macs around Silicon Valley coffee shops then maybe you're right.

Having freelanced, contracted and worked at graphic design studios, ad agencies, font foundries, charities, finance companies, publishing companies and in government in the UK, I can safely say I've never seen any design departments use Windows as standard. None of these were in Silicon Valley and I've never worked in a coffee shop. This is also coming from someone who was almost religiously anti-Apple for many years.

You can certainly do good design on Windows, but there's no chance 90% of professional UI designers here are using Windows. And for user interface design Sketch is absolutelythe standard these days. I'd love to hear what similar tools were available in the 90s.

Easy, look beyond tier 1 countries like UK and US.

As for the 90's examples, I am a bit far away from my Computer Shopper UK edition to go dig out names.

"Sketch did not invent anything, similar tools were already available on the 90's."

This is like saying Facebook didn't invent anything because it came after Friendster.

Indeed, and after Hi5.

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